Spring Statement Discussion (link to documents here)

Holly_Scope
Holly_Scope Posts: 1,667 Scope Online Community Coordinator
edited March 26 in Current affairs

Scope's response to the Spring Statement:

"The Chancellor has confirmed devastating plans to further cut disability benefits. As a result, lowering the living standards of disabled".

Link to documents here - Spring Statement 2025 - GOV.UK

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  • calflye
    calflye Online Community Member Posts: 97 Empowering

    Me too, currently listening to it on another page open and I'm just gobsmacked

  • FluffyCatMeow
    FluffyCatMeow Online Community Member Posts: 94 Contributor

    sky News wrote, “She tells the House: "The Universal Credit standard allowance will increase from £92 per week in 2025-26 to £106 per week by 2029-30, while the Universal Credit Health element will be cut by 50% and then frozen for new claimants."


    does this mean the 50% cut will start in April next year, in 2029, or April this year?

  • SM9346
    SM9346 Online Community Member Posts: 76 Contributor

    Is the health element being cut from today? If true why should I migrate over?

  • FluffyCatMeow
    FluffyCatMeow Online Community Member Posts: 94 Contributor

    thank you

    Is it only for new claimants? (obviously that’s not ok either, but just wondering how much to panic about my own budget if my LCWRA rate is to be cut by 50%)

  • calflye
    calflye Online Community Member Posts: 97 Empowering

    Unsure about that one I'm afraid. Honestly, they're doing a bad job at explaining what it all means. It's so confusing

  • Kim22
    Kim22 Online Community Member Posts: 27 Connected

    I have just gone been moved over to uc but still get esa paid every fortnight. Does that mean I will be a new claimant.


    kim

  • calflye
    calflye Online Community Member Posts: 97 Empowering

    I'm confused on the "cutting LCWRA by half". Does that mean everyone's LCWRA payments will be slashed by half? I get just over £400 for my Health Element (LCWRA), will that be reduced to £200 or am I not understanding it properly? All of this is so confusing and they don't help by explaining it in the way they do